What did I learn from spending two weeks living with orphans?
I learned that you can be spoiled even when you have nothing. You can believe that everyone should give you a handout at every turn. I saw how someone can feel sorry for themselves and believe that they will not have to do anything to earn accomplishments.
I learned to not take everything for granted, even the small things. Work, hard work, is required for success in this world, whether you are in school, playing sports, working, or maintaining a family. No one is going to give you everything you need. You have to have the will power to go out and get it.
I learned to not waste time on yesterday, not worry about tomorrow, and to spend time making the most of today. Live each day to the fullest and not spend it as just a necessary time before tomorrow.
I learned to examine myself and ask, “What is the desire of my heart for this life?”
James 4:13-17 – Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.” Why you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.” As it is, you boast and brag. All such boasting is evil. Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn’t do it, sins.
Maybe I am not encouraged by the fact that I am “a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.” But this is the exact reason why I should be making the most out of my days. I only have a finite number of days in an infinite world of God’s. This is all the more reason to be striving to do His will every day of my life. There is not time to waste. There is not time to sit on the sidelines when I can be on the field playing.
